OUR DAILY BREAD                      Sat., January 14, 1995
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READ:  John 14:1-7

                     THE HOMELESS

      "In My Father's house are many mansions."

                     - John 14:2

I have seen them curled up on park benches in Chicago.
I've observed them asleep in doorways within the
shadow of the White House.  They slump against the
walls of a New York subway.  They huddle in the alleys
of Los Angeles.  They are the homeless -- restless,
furtive, often sick.

To me, homelessness illustrates the human condition
without God.  The Bible says, "All we like sheep have
gone astray" (Isa. 53:6).  To deny God, as so many
people do today, is to be homeless in a world He
designed for His own glory.  To abandon His moral law
is to drift aimlessly.  To deny Him is to make life
meaningless.  To refuse His love is to sink into the
coldness of despair.

The answer to the human dilemma is to believe in Jesus
Christ.  The early church leader Augustine (354-430)
said, "Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart of
man is restless until it finds its rest in Thee."

To trust in Christ is to come into the warm and loving
family of God (Jn. 1:12).  To hope in Him is to look
forward to a heavenly home that will last forever
(14: 1-3).  To receive Him is to become part of His
world of truth, morality, and peace.

Are you feeling homeless?  Come home to God.

    -- David C. Egner

 Adrift in a world that lacked meaning,
     I felt a compulsion to roam,
 And then one bright day I met Jesus,
     At last I had found my heart's home.

    -- K. De Haan

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           THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
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             We are homeless
  until Christ is at home in our hearts.

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  Genesis 43-46

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